The mysterious HTC supersonic, rumored to be headed to Sprint and running on their 4G WiMax network was caught on film briefly. Slim details are known other than that it’s running Android, it will be blazing fast, and sports a 4.3 inch display. Check out the video clip and start drooling.
The Motorola Backflip is now available to AT&T customers as their first Android phone. If you’ve been waiting for some Android love, your wait is over, but don’t be so quick to run down to your nearest AT&T store and plunk down the $199, then wait on that $100 rebate. We’ve looked high and low for the best deals on Motorola’s latest Android offering. If you’re cautious about 3rd party resellers, you can always go straight to the source and get it from AT&T. Wirefly has it for free with a new contract, and also can upgrade you if you’re a current AT&T customer, log in for your upgrade price. But the best deal we found yet, it WalMart subsidiary LetsTalk.com, where you can score it for FREE on a new contract, plus a $50 rebate, essentially getting paid to take the phone. LetsTalk.com also can upgrade your current AT&T plan, with prices as low as free, with free shipping. And if you want to go the unlocked, no contract route, you’ll pretty much get the same price of $419 to $449 wherever you look right now.
Now, aren’t you glad you waited an extra day to shop around?
In case you’ve been hiding under a rock the past month or so, here’s the run down on the Backflip’s specs:
The Motorola Backflip is a touchscreen phone with 5MP autofocus camera, Wi-Fi, physical QWERTY keyboard, MotoBLUR feature, and Android OS. Full specification list:
Here’s a juicy little tidbit courtesy of Boy Genius. Take it for what it’s worth, but don’t complain if the info’s not accurate. But the Motorola CLIQ, still running the now antiquated 1.5 should be getting the 2.1 treatment sometime next month. Hopefully we’ll hear something official from T-Mobile in the next couple of weeks, our fingers are crossed. Thoughts?
Android version 2.1 for the Motorola Droid is in testing phases over at Verizon, with a rollout coming soon, but no defined date. Here’s the details on the upgrade from Engadget:
A recent PowerPoint slide (shown below) revealed that the Motorola Zeppelin (shown above), named the CLIQ XT should be coming to T-Mobile USA launching on March 10th. It’s been described as a “CLIQ without a keyboard”, and should appeal to users that want MotoBLUR, but in a much slimmer design. Specs include MOTOBLUR running on 1.5 (why oh why?), a 3.2-inch HVGA screen, GPS, 5 MP camera with flash, and touch sensitive trackpad and navigational buttons. The price point is rumored to be at or below the current CLIQ, making it an attractive option for new smartphone buyers that don’t need to the high end specs of more expensive models.
This could be the next Android handset coming to Verizon Wireless customers. Said to be running a 1Ghz SnapDragon processor, Android 2.1 with Sense, 256MB of RAM, a 3.5″ or 3.7″ WVGA screen, also a dual LED flash on the camera. Specs equivalent to the Nexus One, but with CDMA love. There is also what is described as an “optical mouse pointer” near the bottom of the device. Hit the link for a few more pictures and a video.
[via PocketNow]
Here’s a video showing how some crafty developers got Android running on the Sony Ericsson X1. Both Android 1.6 and 2.0.1 have been successfully ported to the X1, with a few things yet to be fixed, such as the camera, GPS and bluetooth. But that’s not the point right? It’s about using Android on whatever device you want. From the video you can see it’s not exactly perfect, but if you’ve got an X1, and you feel a little frisky, head over to xda-developers for all the details.
This is one of the first pictures of the rumored HTC device for Sprint’s 4G network. Codenamed the HTC Supersonic, it features a 4.3-inch touchscreen and 1GHz Snapdragon processor, Sense UI like the HTC Hero, and of course Sprint’s WiMax 4G bands. It’s unclear if this is supposed to be a prototype or a production model, but we can only hope an official announcement is around the corner soon.
Sprint users, you excited to trade in your Hero or Moment for this baby?
One of the selling point of the Nexus One and features of Android 2.1 is the voice recognition software. Nearly every text field will accept voice input, and fairly accurately, transcribe your voice as text.
But an interesting feature, is that curse words are purposely filtered out, and replaced with a string of #’s. While we believe it should at least be an option to turn this feature on or off, Google’s explanation makes sense from their standpoint:
“We filter potentially offensive or inappropriate results because we want to avoid situations whereby we might misrecognize a spoken query and return profanity when, in fact, the user said something completely innocent,”
“Ultimately our goal is to return results that show exactly what you said, and we’re constantly working to improve the technology to better fit our users’ needs.”
What do you guys think? Good move on Google’s part, or just a censoring feature? Afterall, you still can type whatever vulgar words you want.
You’re looking at a chat transcription between a Cliq owner and what appears to be a Motorola rep about 1.6 coming to the Cliq. The rumor seems that it’s in development and should be released next month. Of course, with no official announcement, it’s still in the rumors section. Seems about time for an update, or is Motorola hoping everyone forgot about the Cliq when the Droid came out?
Thanks Rezzenonne for the tip!